My wife and I were both very early Gmail users (our lastname@gmail.com) and we both get a ton of accounts signup email this way.
First, reset the passwords, and then go to lengths to lock them out of their own accounts. As the final blow, once you've modified all detail about their account, just change the account email address to something else entirely.
The last step is to fend-off any recovery attempt. Even if they gave any details to customer service by phone (supposedly), by the time they do their old account has zero identifiable data that they can latch on to recover it.
- Has been operating on conventional rail (cost $ vs. $$$ for maglev) since 1981.
- Is holding the world record of 574,8 km/h on conventioanl rail since 2007.
- Is linking all major cities in France and some abroad (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, UK).
- Has commercial speeds of 280km/h for the oldest ones, to 320km/h for the current generation.
- Costs a fraction of the price of the maglev.
I was frightened that Wanking Walrus would never see the light.
Now, I can confidently wait another 2.5 years for it.
Mr. Torvalds probably made one of the longest running joke in Linux's history when he posted his original comment on July 2008 !
A couple of USB2 (!) ports, make that one only on the 17", for a brand-new, supposedly top-of-the-line machine in 2011 ? I'm feeling like if Apple were spitting in my face.
Would be interesting to see just how much the NDS is trouncing the PSP.
Just in this household me & my wife own one each; my in-laws have 2 more; and virtually in every home with teens that we visited last summer, there was 1 for every 2 kids on average or possibly more.
Outside of the gaming context this story was posted in, it is true that a weak dollar will make stuff cost significantly less for us Europeans traveling to the US. On my last business trip to the US I was able to stockpile on clothing and electronics at a fraction of the cost of these exact same items back home.
Bryan, Let me try answering some of your questions. 1) In some cases AT&T provide a pair of ADSL2+ links bonded together, to bring 50Mbps into the premice. This is nice. Even when they aren't providing the bonded connections, a ADSL2+ line will still deliver 24Mbps. Out of this, a lot of set aside for video. Your regular Internet surfing is limited to a fraction of the total bandwidth. 2) If they advertize 4 tuners, they likely have 4 systems on a chip (SOCs) on their STBs so yes, we're talking 4x different programs simultaneously to watch or record. There's no such thing as 1/4 the speed in the MPEG world. Either it works at real-time speed, or it doesn't and the service looks horrible (or does't display at all). 3) Definitely multicast. 190 channels of mcast SD content to the DSLAM fits nicely under 1 Gbps. Multicast is the only way to deliver TV to thousands of home with the garantees necessary to provide a decent service. 4) It's multicast. The number of subs isn't relevant as it is likely all multicast groups are statically joined at the DSLAM or at the distribution router, so there is actually no traffic variation if 10 or 10,000 watch TV. 5) Video is carried in an AF DCSP class so yes it's protected in case of congestion. Aim is to provide no more than 1 artifact every 2 hours for acceptable QOE (that's no more than 1.10E-6 packet loss).
Broadcast IPTV is easy, has been done to death by dozen of operators before AT&T and hundreds more worldwide. On-demand content is where the real meat is. Think about nPVR, StartOver... Both services use unicast streams. When TV becomes unicast, then bandwidth starts to shoot up inside the operator's network. To handle this, it's very likely AT&T have an intelligent platform in place to handle these services (like Cisco's CDS to name but one).
You might want this when spending a couple of weeks on vacation in a foreign country. Prepaid is perfect for that.
I got myself a prepaid SIM card when visiting India a couple of years ago, to place calls within the country, and it ended up costing me next to nothing. My roaming charges would have been through the roof had I used my regular number.
Nopes, Cisco won't post the software directly to you. They'll publish a download link to your Cisco.com profile so you can download the file using the access code provided in the email.
Send me a 'show version' from the router and your Cisco.com username to my email addy, and I'll see what I can do;)
I know what you mean. If I were in your case though, I would look at this as an opportunity to get a free upgrade from Cisco. I guess the router reboots which you've starting to experience have nothing with the flaw; as you say it's probably one of the numerous older published ones.
I recently downloaded and gave a try to Auditor, which comes bundled with a list of exploits for nearly all recent software flaws (not just Cisco) and for which there is a public advisory and exploit code available. Scary, but necessary. In the wrong hands though, this can be turned into a powerful DOS software collection.
Multiple Cisco products contain vulnerabilities in the processing of IPSec IKE (Internet Key Exchange) messages. These vulnerabilities were identified by the University of Oulu Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) "PROTOS" Test Suite for IPSec and can be repeatedly exploited to produce a denial of service.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability for affected customers. Prior to deploying software, customers should consult their maintenance provider or check the software for feature set compatibility and known issues specific to their environment.
(emphasis mine)
Then later in the same document, there's a whole section about Obtaining Fixed Software including a subsection for Customers without Service Contracts(emphasis mine) which I assume is your case.
The new iPod, featuring a gorgeous 2.5-inch color screen, can display album artwork and photos, as well as play stunning video including music videos, video podcasts, home movies and television shows. The new iPod holds up to 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos or over 150 hours of video and is available in a 30GB model for $299 and a 60GB model for $399, with both models available in stunning white or black designs. Oct 12, 2005.
Why limit the speed of your machines on the network to a fraction of the available bandwidth, when in 99% of the time this bandwidth would be freely available to use and allow fast file transfers.
What you need to do, is implement simple and efficient QoS on the switch. If you know that two PC's will be streaming at 1.411 Mbps then define the appropriate class to isolate this type of traffic and reserve the appropriate bandwidth on the switch.
Then all the rest can be unmanaged, filling the remaining bandwidth for file transfers. When congestion occurs, default traffic will become policed. At that time your streaming traffic will get its reserved share of bandwidth, and your default traffic will clock down a bit, leaving room for the streams.
Simple, unmanaged switches usually do not offer any QoS but on the other hand provide bandwidth aplenty for a very small cost (about $100 for a 8-port Gigabit switch). If you want QoS then you must purchase more capable, managed equipment with built-in QoS. There are lots of vendors and good products out there.
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Some passwords (mostly web accounts & stuff) I don't even bother to recall. And I don't want to set my accounts password to so some common default and take the risk that an attacker will break in one then try using the same password with other online accounts, which would work because that is something I'm ashamed to admit I'm guilty of doing.
So I just use the "Forgot Your Password?" links which are now everywhere, fortunately, to email me a new, randomly generated password to my email address. Within minutes I'm able to logon where I need to. Whenever possible I set the cookie to "Remember Me" so I don't have to do that little trick all too often.
When's the last time you logged on to Slashdot ? You can set the login cookie to expire every year... Good enough for me and perfect illustration of the point.
So Slashdot uses an Arrowpoint Content Switch from circa 2000, but except with the name change to Cisco and some technology updates, the same basic lineup still makes Cisco's portfolio.
Some examples here.
The examples are heavy on Corporate speak, but you were asking about a large Web/Content architecture, right?
I'll second your choice for GigE, considering how good and cheap entry-level unmanaged Gigabit switches such as the Linksys SD2008, SMC 8508T, D-Link DGS-1008D and Netgear GS108 have become.
I recently tested the SD2008 performance using specialized equipment, and this switch is amazing: it really does line rate to all ports, fully non-blocking.
I am renovating a loft and I am fitting 14 RJ45 sockets scattered around various areas. Probably overkill, but I'll be happy I have all these ports when I'll have gamer friends drop by.
The one RJ45 I have second thoughts about is the one going to the circuit breaker box. Do I really need put one in there ? Otherwise it could go in the kitchen, next to the fridge. Either way I'm beginning to regret having pulled a cable so far out which may never get used. If you have better ideas or just opinions, I'm listening !
Exactly why I chose to recently buy a Canon printer considered "ancient" by today standards: an i965 rather than the new Pixma 2/3/4XXX model du jour which replaced the older photo 9XX series a few months ago.
The i965 was one of the greatest/quickest A4 personal photo printers around about this time last year when it was introduced.
And the cartriges are the excellent 6-series clear plastic containers (BCI-6BK, etc.) with no chips or games.
They are CHEAP to buy and easilly found. to me this was the main driver for moving away from my old Deskjet 970Cxi.
The P502 "Spider" motherboard from GMS features a 800 MHz PowerPC processor, 2x onboard GigE LAN, optional PCI-X expansion bus, 256MB ECC memory, 16MB onboard flash, runs Linux, consumes 10W of power and measures about the size of a regular pack of cigarettes.
Imagine this with a high-performance SATA raid controller [1][2], in an enclosure barely bigger than the 4 hard drives alone.
Someone knows here to buy this motherboard? What about practical experience with this sort of configuration?
You seem to know the issue(s) quite well, would you care to point out where to find out more? Specific bug numbers or URLs to specific documentation of the flaws would be nice.
I am using DVD Profiler, it works okay but indeed it only works with standard DVDs (no books, no games, no CDs) and it doesn't allow you to use a standard Webcam to input bar codes. And I don't have nor want a barcode scanner but I do have several webcams.
The problem with DVD Profiler are missing profiles, and even worse, wrong profiles e.g. your barcode resolves to a match which is totally unrelated. Also since the system relies on individual contributors your DVD profiles may change over time (unless locked) sometimes to something less desirable.
I could go on for a while, but that is out of the scope of this dicsussion. I don't have a mac and I'm really jealous at how polished Delicious Library looks in comparaison.
Commercial newsgroup providers advertise a 50+ days retention and 99+% completeness of the alt.binaries stuff. Google has exactly none. I'm sure that collectively we could find one or two instances where access to past binary content would be useful, past the obvious I'm sure I've already seen the same girl before or there was this game 10 years ago...
Happy you got modded funny, however Long Reach Ethernet (LRE) does exactly what it says with very good throughput (we're nowhere near the alledged 80% packets loss of the parent post).
Oh, and the video clip which shows Ethernet over barbed wire is at the same url on the right-hand side where it says "Video: Charlie Giancarlo Demonstrates LRE Technology". It's nice to see it once for the "Wow!" effect. You'll also see the demo go over Cat3, Cat5, speaker cable, coax and lamp cord...
For example, their tests for the Cisco CRS-1 are available here and their results here. The beast qualifies as both big iron and very fast switch to me... Watch and learn;)
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My wife and I were both very early Gmail users (our lastname@gmail.com) and we both get a ton of accounts signup email this way. First, reset the passwords, and then go to lengths to lock them out of their own accounts. As the final blow, once you've modified all detail about their account, just change the account email address to something else entirely. The last step is to fend-off any recovery attempt. Even if they gave any details to customer service by phone (supposedly), by the time they do their old account has zero identifiable data that they can latch on to recover it.
- Is holding the world record of 574,8 km/h on conventioanl rail since 2007.
- Is linking all major cities in France and some abroad (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, UK).
- Has commercial speeds of 280km/h for the oldest ones, to 320km/h for the current generation.
- Costs a fraction of the price of the maglev.
But, YMMV. And by all means go Japan !
To which Ubuntu forum users massively agreed that this would make a great release name !
I was frightened that Wanking Walrus would never see the light. Now, I can confidently wait another 2.5 years for it. Mr. Torvalds probably made one of the longest running joke in Linux's history when he posted his original comment on July 2008 !
A couple of USB2 (!) ports, make that one only on the 17", for a brand-new, supposedly top-of-the-line machine in 2011 ? I'm feeling like if Apple were spitting in my face.
Would be interesting to see just how much the NDS is trouncing the PSP. Just in this household me & my wife own one each; my in-laws have 2 more; and virtually in every home with teens that we visited last summer, there was 1 for every 2 kids on average or possibly more.
Outside of the gaming context this story was posted in, it is true that a weak dollar will make stuff cost significantly less for us Europeans traveling to the US. On my last business trip to the US I was able to stockpile on clothing and electronics at a fraction of the cost of these exact same items back home.
Bryan,
Let me try answering some of your questions.
1) In some cases AT&T provide a pair of ADSL2+ links bonded together, to bring 50Mbps into the premice. This is nice. Even when they aren't providing the bonded connections, a ADSL2+ line will still deliver 24Mbps. Out of this, a lot of set aside for video. Your regular Internet surfing is limited to a fraction of the total bandwidth.
2) If they advertize 4 tuners, they likely have 4 systems on a chip (SOCs) on their STBs so yes, we're talking 4x different programs simultaneously to watch or record. There's no such thing as 1/4 the speed in the MPEG world. Either it works at real-time speed, or it doesn't and the service looks horrible (or does't display at all).
3) Definitely multicast. 190 channels of mcast SD content to the DSLAM fits nicely under 1 Gbps. Multicast is the only way to deliver TV to thousands of home with the garantees necessary to provide a decent service.
4) It's multicast. The number of subs isn't relevant as it is likely all multicast groups are statically joined at the DSLAM or at the distribution router, so there is actually no traffic variation if 10 or 10,000 watch TV.
5) Video is carried in an AF DCSP class so yes it's protected in case of congestion. Aim is to provide no more than 1 artifact every 2 hours for acceptable QOE (that's no more than 1.10E-6 packet loss).
Broadcast IPTV is easy, has been done to death by dozen of operators before AT&T and hundreds more worldwide. On-demand content is where the real meat is. Think about nPVR, StartOver... Both services use unicast streams. When TV becomes unicast, then bandwidth starts to shoot up inside the operator's network. To handle this, it's very likely AT&T have an intelligent platform in place to handle these services (like Cisco's CDS to name but one).
You might want this when spending a couple of weeks on vacation in a foreign country. Prepaid is perfect for that.
I got myself a prepaid SIM card when visiting India a couple of years ago, to place calls within the country, and it ended up costing me next to nothing. My roaming charges would have been through the roof had I used my regular number.
Send me a 'show version' from the router and your Cisco.com username to my email addy, and I'll see what I can do ;)
I recently downloaded and gave a try to Auditor, which comes bundled with a list of exploits for nearly all recent software flaws (not just Cisco) and for which there is a public advisory and exploit code available. Scary, but necessary. In the wrong hands though, this can be turned into a powerful DOS software collection.
From the Cisco security advisory:
Summary
Multiple Cisco products contain vulnerabilities in the processing of IPSec IKE (Internet Key Exchange) messages. These vulnerabilities were identified by the University of Oulu Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) "PROTOS" Test Suite for IPSec and can be repeatedly exploited to produce a denial of service.
Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability for affected customers. Prior to deploying software, customers should consult their maintenance provider or check the software for feature set compatibility and known issues specific to their environment. (emphasis mine)
Then later in the same document, there's a whole section about Obtaining Fixed Software including a subsection for Customers without Service Contracts (emphasis mine) which I assume is your case.
The new iPod, featuring a gorgeous 2.5-inch color screen, can display album artwork and photos, as well as play stunning video including music videos, video podcasts, home movies and television shows. The new iPod holds up to 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos or over 150 hours of video and is available in a 30GB model for $299 and a 60GB model for $399, with both models available in stunning white or black designs. Oct 12, 2005.
No offense but parent's suggestion is so 1990.
Why limit the speed of your machines on the network to a fraction of the available bandwidth, when in 99% of the time this bandwidth would be freely available to use and allow fast file transfers.
What you need to do, is implement simple and efficient QoS on the switch. If you know that two PC's will be streaming at 1.411 Mbps then define the appropriate class to isolate this type of traffic and reserve the appropriate bandwidth on the switch.
Then all the rest can be unmanaged, filling the remaining bandwidth for file transfers. When congestion occurs, default traffic will become policed. At that time your streaming traffic will get its reserved share of bandwidth, and your default traffic will clock down a bit, leaving room for the streams.
Simple, unmanaged switches usually do not offer any QoS but on the other hand provide bandwidth aplenty for a very small cost (about $100 for a 8-port Gigabit switch). If you want QoS then you must purchase more capable, managed equipment with built-in QoS. There are lots of vendors and good products out there.
So I just use the "Forgot Your Password?" links which are now everywhere, fortunately, to email me a new, randomly generated password to my email address. Within minutes I'm able to logon where I need to. Whenever possible I set the cookie to "Remember Me" so I don't have to do that little trick all too often.
When's the last time you logged on to Slashdot ? You can set the login cookie to expire every year... Good enough for me and perfect illustration of the point.
The mathematician then says,
"Actually, we can only be sure there is at least one Scottish sheep of which at least one side is black".
Some examples here. The examples are heavy on Corporate speak, but you were asking about a large Web/Content architecture, right?
I recently tested the SD2008 performance using specialized equipment, and this switch is amazing: it really does line rate to all ports, fully non-blocking.
I am renovating a loft and I am fitting 14 RJ45 sockets scattered around various areas. Probably overkill, but I'll be happy I have all these ports when I'll have gamer friends drop by.
The one RJ45 I have second thoughts about is the one going to the circuit breaker box. Do I really need put one in there ? Otherwise it could go in the kitchen, next to the fridge. Either way I'm beginning to regret having pulled a cable so far out which may never get used. If you have better ideas or just opinions, I'm listening !
The i965 was one of the greatest/quickest A4 personal photo printers around about this time last year when it was introduced.
And the cartriges are the excellent 6-series clear plastic containers (BCI-6BK, etc.) with no chips or games.
They are CHEAP to buy and easilly found. to me this was the main driver for moving away from my old Deskjet 970Cxi.
Imagine this with a high-performance SATA raid controller [1] [2], in an enclosure barely bigger than the 4 hard drives alone.
Someone knows here to buy this motherboard? What about practical experience with this sort of configuration?
You seem to know the issue(s) quite well, would you care to point out where to find out more? Specific bug numbers or URLs to specific documentation of the flaws would be nice.
I am using DVD Profiler, it works okay but indeed it only works with standard DVDs (no books, no games, no CDs) and it doesn't allow you to use a standard Webcam to input bar codes. And I don't have nor want a barcode scanner but I do have several webcams.
The problem with DVD Profiler are missing profiles, and even worse, wrong profiles e.g. your barcode resolves to a match which is totally unrelated. Also since the system relies on individual contributors your DVD profiles may change over time (unless locked) sometimes to something less desirable.
I could go on for a while, but that is out of the scope of this dicsussion. I don't have a mac and I'm really jealous at how polished Delicious Library looks in comparaison.
Commercial newsgroup providers advertise a 50+ days retention and 99+% completeness of the alt.binaries stuff. Google has exactly none. I'm sure that collectively we could find one or two instances where access to past binary content would be useful, past the obvious I'm sure I've already seen the same girl before or there was this game 10 years ago...
Happy you got modded funny, however Long Reach Ethernet (LRE) does exactly what it says with very good throughput (we're nowhere near the alledged 80% packets loss of the parent post).
Oh, and the video clip which shows Ethernet over barbed wire is at the same url on the right-hand side where it says "Video: Charlie Giancarlo Demonstrates LRE Technology". It's nice to see it once for the "Wow!" effect. You'll also see the demo go over Cat3, Cat5, speaker cable, coax and lamp cord...
For example, their tests for the Cisco CRS-1 are available here and their results here. The beast qualifies as both big iron and very fast switch to me... Watch and learn ;)